Welcome to
A PROFESSIONAL CAREER AT LLOYD'S

This guide defines professional roles of people working in the Lloyd's Market, in terms of their career paths, and identifies the necessary attributes of "What makes people successful".

The diagram on the right shows the subject matter of this site. Please click on the key headings and they will take you to the relevant section.

Purpose and Value

The Professional Career at Lloyd's website has been designed by the Lloyd's Market Association (LMA) for potential recruits, for new entrants to the Lloyd's Market and for those already employed by managing agents as underwriting or claims staff. Its purpose is to help to define their careers and to hone their skills.

The drop-down menus at the top of this screen identify the roles and competencies for the core careers across the Lloyd's Market.

Those for Underwriters are most comprehensive and detailed for each stage of their career development. The competencies shown for Claims staff are more generic, based upon Nominal Group research undertaken by the LMA.

The key corporate competence at Lloyd's is sustained underwriting profitability, allied to optimal claims handling, over the insurance cycle, which meets the needs of capital providers.

Why should you access this site? What's in it for you? What will you get from it?

Throughout this website, and as indicated by accessing the vertical menus on the left hand side of this screen, emphasis has been placed on defining and improving competencies. The answers to these questions are that the "A Professional Career at Lloyd's" website will help to unlock genuine value, in terms of financial returns (the "Prize") and job satisfaction, so that improved performance may accrue to both individuals and their employers who wish to develop their professional careers in the Lloyd's Market.